Africa
How Boko Haram Spreads Hunger Beyond Nigeria’s Boarders
The Lake Chad Basin region—which straddles areas of northeastern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, southern Niger and western Chad—is facing a hunger crisis....
U.N. food agency launches $250 million Zimbabwe plan to end hunger
The UN World Food Programme on Monday pledged $253 million to fund a five-year plan to end hunger in Zimbabwe, which is emerging from a devastating drought that left more than 4 million people in need of food aid last year....
Hunger amplifies infectious diseases for millions fleeing the violence of Boko Haram
Already a huge and chronic problem in Nigeria, malaria soars during conflict and natural disasters....
Nobody Wants To Drop Food From A Plane. But It’s Happening
Air drops of food, seen by the development community as a last resort, are going on in South Sudan....
Fighting Famine in War-Torn South Sudan
In South Sudan, 5M people don't know where their next meal is coming from and, of them, 100,000 are starving and face death. If not for humanitarian efforts, millions could die....
Somalia: ‘People are dying of hunger…there’s no water’
Over six million people are in need of food assistance -- more than half the country's population -- according to recent figures from the UN. But even inside the camps, food is scarce....
Drought brings savage halt to nomadic way of life in Somalia – in pictures
A third consecutive year of failed rains has laid waste to livestock and threatened a centuries-old tradition of pastoral farming, wi...
Why The Famine In South Sudan Keeps Getting Worse
At the same time that people are starving, fighting has turned parts of the country into no-go zones for relief agencies....
Last time I got food, armed men took everything’: famine in South Sudan
For some time now, aid has been the only way for people to survive here. But over the past year, even that lifeline has almost dried up. Across all of South Sudan, 4.9 million people are severely food insecure....
Famine ‘largest humanitarian crisis in history of UN’
The world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the United Nations was founded in 1945 with more than 20 million people in four countries at risk of starvation and famine, the UN humanitarian chief has said...